Akamai Releases Third Quarterly Report on “State of the Internet”

If we take into consideration the need of internet for each person all over the world, the state of the Internet is quite interesting for the individual user. In order to satisfy the curiosity and discover what is new there, we addressed Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM).

According to the SOURCEWIRE, Akamai Technologies is the leader in powering rich media, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, that releases the third edition of its quarterly “State of the Internet” report. It is available for download at www.akamai.com/stateoftheinternet.

The report underlines key Internet statistics such as origin of attack traffic, network outages and broadband connectivity levels across the globe.

Advances in global connectivity, in the third quarter, is expressed by various undersea cable projects getting underway or nearing completion, the commercial launch of WiMAX services in a number of countries, and the announcement of fiber-to-the-premises services.

Interesting trends in United States-based traffic:

- Delaware, Washington, Virginia, Texas, and Georgia all experienced quarterly declines of more than 40% for narrowband connectivity (<256 Kbps)
- South Dakota, Maine, and Hawaii nearly doubled their rates of high broadband connectivity (>5 Mbps)
- Oklahoma and Kentucky are the only two US states to see consecutive quarter over quarter growth in high broadband connectivity since Q4 2007.
- Virginia, Massachusetts, and New Jersey have the highest levels of Internet penetration in the United States.
- South Korea had the highest levels of high broadband connectivity for the third straight quarter
- Delaware also maintained top position, with 55% of connections to Akamai occurring at 5 Mbps or greater.

“Narrowband” connections:

- Mayotte and Equatorial Guinea - the “slowest” countries,
- The District of Columbia and Washington State continued to have the highest percentages.

Though according to he SOURCEWIRE, these regions saw a significant quarter-over-quarter decline in narrowband connection percentages, down 25% and 46% respectively as compared to the second quarter.


Source:
http://www.sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=43485&hilite=
www.akamai.com/stateoftheinternet
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